Was going to post to say the same thing as you but held off when I remembered how much I’d enjoyed the satire over at El Reg (at least in its glory days). Generally not sure how well satire works on what is otherwise a news’n’views, or views-on-news, site. Craig Brown is an excellent satirist yet regularly gets perplexed or point-missing comments posted under his Mail pieces. If the satire route were to be taken, there are plenty of worthy targets to lampoon out there – a restriction to someone as, in the grand scheme of things, obscure as Murphy seems a bit of an opportunity missed.

My Burning Ears: absolutely, a focus on someone so obscure and irrelevant is first confusing and then perplexing or even troubling to a general audience. I think keep it focused on the big things and don’t let the little ones drag it down.

Depends on how the esteemed Murphy Richards writes it. Regular contributions from a guru of international political economics as a stand-alone expounder of preposterous lefty bollocks could be fun. There’s ample source material over in Spudworld to work from but there’s no requirement to labour the reference.